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Haydin vs Haylee

American parents have registered 30,233 Haylees since 1880, against 764 Haydins. Haylee is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Haydin against Haylee, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Haydin Haylee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Haylee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Haydin had 62 and Haylee had 1,064.

Side by side

  Haydin Haylee
Total US births 76430,233
Most in one year 701,522
Babies in 2025 7153
Estimated living today 76030,000
Median age today 1519
Peak year 20072009
Best rank 2,602nd boys211th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th1,417th
First recorded 19931968
Girls / boys 300 / 46430,213 / 20

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Haylees alive today are over 19; half the Haydins are over 15. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Haydin and Haylee.